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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2024 Report

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The database community's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative began in 2020 as the Diversity/Inclusion initiative [1]. This report highlights our activities from 2024. Our goal as a community is to make all DB conference attendees feel included, regardless of their scientific views or personal backgrounds. As a leadership team, the DEI group supports DEI chairs across conferences, preserves institutional memory of DEI e↵orts, shapes a shared vision, and fosters collaboration to advance inclusion. These e↵orts are carried out by core members (Figure 1) and liaisons from each conference's executive committee (Figure 2). The initiative was relaunched in January 2024 with a new structure based on five key actions: COORDINATE, to support collaboration between core members, liaisons, and DEI chairs; SCOUT, to gather best DEI practices from other communities; ETHICS, to create and promote ethical guidelines for writing and reviewing; MEDIA, to collect and share digital content from DEI@DB events [4]; and DIVERSIFY, to analyze data on diversity, accessibility, and the adoption of DEI principles in research and academia. DBCARES 1 is now o cially part of the DEI initiative. The mission of DBCARES is to create an inclusive and diverse Database community with zero tolerance for abuse, discrimination, or harassment. As part of this integration, we unified the Code of Ethics and introduced clear guidelines for DB conference organizers. Several conferences-including SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, and EDBT-continued using CLOSET [2] to ensure fair and transparent reviewer assignments. The SUPPORT, INCLUDE, INFORM, ORGANIZE, and REACH OUT actions have now become standard practice, and since 2024, they are no longer managed by the DEI initiative. To ensure early financial planning for DEI conference activities, SUPPORT is now the responsibility of conference organizers. At the same time, INCLUDE, ORGANIZE, and REACH OUT fall under the direct responsibility of DEI chairs at each conference.

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hal-05331741 , version 1 (06-11-2025)

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Nelly Barret, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Angela Bonifati, Barbara Catania, Stratos Idreos, et al.. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Activities in Database Conferences: A 2024 Report. SIGMOD record, 2025, SIGMOD Record Reports, 54 (3), pp.40-43. ⟨10.1145/3774303.3774315⟩. ⟨hal-05331741⟩
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